The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-06-29
WARS VICTIMS.
WHAT THE CIVIL WAR COST IN
HUMAN LIVES.
The Most Deadly Ever Waged-The
Known and Unknown Dead in
Seventy-Three Cemeteries
AComparison in Losses.

OIlCldl IelllIuS suOW lilaI dDOuI S,Ooo,
900 Federal soldiers enlisted during th'
war in response to the successive calls O.
President Lincoln, and that Of this mum
Der 1856, ,097 were colored troops.
| Reports show that the Northern ant
! Southern armies met in over 2,00(
skirmishes and battles. In 14S of these
conflicts the loss on the Federal side wa:
over 500 men, and in at least ten battle:
! over 10, 900 men were reported lost OF
each side. The appended table show:
that the combined losses of the Federal
and Confederate forces in killed, wounded
and missing in the following engagements
were:
Shiloh, "a, 900; Antietam, is, 900; Stone
River, $4,000; Chickamauga, $4,000
McClellan's Peninsula campaign, so, 900
/ Grants Peninsula campaign, 140, 900
and Sherman's campaign, $4,000.
Official statistics show that of the g.
653, 900 men enlisted, there were killed
! in battle a, 23S; died of wounds, 49,
POS; died of disease, 1SG,216 died ol
unknown causes, 24,1s4; total 303, S43
This includes only chose whose death
while in the army had been actually
| proved. To this number should be
added first, &c, 900 men who are known
to have died while in the hands of the
enemy as prisoners of war, and many
others in the same manner whose deaths
! are unrecordcd; second, a fair percent,
ane of the 2O5, 704 men who are put down
on the official reports as deserters and
missing in action, for those who partici-
patcd in the war know that men fire.
Quently disappear who, it was certain,
had not deserted, yet could not be other.
wise officially accounted for; third, thou
sands who are buried in private ccmc-
teries all over the North who died while
at home on furlough.
The nations dead are buried in seventy
three National cemeteries, of which
twelve are in the Northern States.
Among the principal ones in the North,
are:
Cypress Hill, with its 3,7s6 dead; Finn's
Point, N j., which contains the remains OF
2,6H unknown dead: Gettysburg, Pa, with
its 1867 known and Cos unknown dead;
Mound City, ILL.,. with 2,505 known and 2, ,12l
unknown graves: Philadelphia, with 1909
dead; and Woodlawn, Elmira, N. Y, with its
5000 dead.
In the South, near the scenes of ter
rible conflicts, are. located the largest de-
positories of the Nations heroic dead:
Arlington, Va, Is, ,264, of which 4,319 are
unknown; Beaufort, S. c., 9,241, of which
4,493 are unknown; Chalmettee, La, l2,5ll,
of which 5,674 are unknown; Chattanooga,
Tenn, Il, ,J62, of which 1868 are unknown:
Fredericksburg, Va, l5,257, of which II, TO
are unknown; Jefferson Barracks, Mo-, II, =
400, of which $500 are unknown; Little Rock,
Ark, 5,GO2, of which =, 1881 are unknown; City
Point, Va, 5, l22, of which l 1,37i are unknown:
Marietta, Ga, 10, Isl, of which 1855 are un-
known; Memphis, Tenn, 1887, Of which g..
SIT are unknown; Nashville, Tenn, 1886. Of
which 4, 700 are unknown; Poplar Grove, Va,
6,190, Of which 4,001 are unknown; Rich
mond, Va, 6,542, of which 5, 700 are unknown
Salisbury, N. c., II, 126, of which l2,032 are
unknown: Stone River, Tenn, 5, SOP of which
2SS are unknown; Vicksburg, Miss, 16, 900, of
which 2,704 are unknown; Antietam, Va,
4,761, of which 1878 are unknown; Winches.
ter, Va, 1850, of which 1865 are unknown.
In all the remains of 800, 900 men who
fought for the Stars and Stripes find
guarded graves in our National ceme-
teries. Two cemeteries are mainly de-
voted to the brave men who perished in
the prisons of the same name-Anderson-
Vile, Ca, which contains 1874 graves,
and Salisbury, with its II, 1876 dead, of
whom 12, ,032 are unknown.
Of the vast number who are inferred in
our National cemeteries 275, 900 sleep be-
meath the soil of the Southern States, and
145, 900 of these rest in graves marked
unknown.
The total Confederate loss will never
be known, but the best estimates place it
at about 220, 900 men out of 100000
men who served in the Southern armies.
The total number of men furnished to
the Federal army by the United States
during the war under all calls was 2,GS3,-
523. The total number of colored troops
in the Northern army was 1913, 15G. The
heaviest loss by disease was suffered by
the colored troops; while but 2, 997 died
in action and of wounds, the enormously
large number of 26, ,301 died of disease.
Among the white troops the proportion
of deaths in action and from wounds to
the deaths from disease was about as one
to two; among the colored troops as one
to eight. Of the colored troops enlisted
one out of every seven died of disease.
The proportion among the white troops
was one to fifteen.
Now that we are brushing up thesefg
ures it will be we'll enough to remember
how many men were furnished by each
State, and the following list will show:
Maine. ........ 71,745 Ohio. ........3 81, 1873
Ar 1I.s...sl,:-. oi'riS Indiana 1uS ld7